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While senior engineers don’t make NFL wages, the executives do (including some former senior engineers). Would it be fair to compare execs to NFL player instead? (While engineers a…

It is mostly Java now. Backend ones are migrated to C++

YT is migrating more and more low-level infra to Google wide support now. But many core “middleware” infra is still maintained in-house.

Golang doesn’t have a proper generics support at its beginning. It is too late now.

Typically publicly traded companies have trading window limitations for its employees, and one purpose is to avoid insider trading risks. But that works for “normal engineer”. Exec…

Both options work, but you have to choose one style depending on the stage and type of the startup. If you are founding a new coffee shop, or a trading company, probably you should…

There is no need to "respect" the process, but just to be more thoughtful: > What's not in a Linux inode? > My answer was: Lots of things...dinosaurs, the moon... You can answer th…

The content on/recommended by TikTok has two main interesting characteristics as I observed: - Being very "personally relevant": It doesn't only recommend generally popular stuff. …

Not to dismiss this course since I never tried it, but my personal experience is that I procrastinate a lot when I don’t enjoy my work, have a lot of FUD around the project, or sim…

Can’t agree more. Chinese branch of KFC/McDonalds not only has many delicious specials you can’t find outside China, even the basic fried chicken is much more juicy and flavorful. …

That is a valid use case despite being small and incremental. I think it will still be helpful to some people.

The easy part is the copy-paste-from-SO part ;)

It doesn’t calm to solve the bottleneck either. On the contrary, it clearly states that its mission is to solve the easy parts better so developers can focus better on the true cha…

> Apple announced that FaceTime is going to be available on the web so users can call in from Android devices and Windows PCs From the article.

Or “next week’s Friday”

Indeed most CS graduates will forget the content after the exams, but after the process of working through the courses, they are much faster in picking up the knowledge when needed…

I agree. Why buying a company if you don’t want to make any change? Investment firms make profits by buying low and selling high, and it is hard to sell higher than the purchase pr…

FWIW EDUs typically use an external service like https://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl

Speaking from personal experiences on non-dedicated IP plans on both SendGrid and SES, SES is much better in deliverability of transactional emails, esp. when sent to .edu domains.…

Google is still relevant because it controls Android and Chrome. Baidu never gets lucky in building that and be a dominant player. This makes it very passive in the mobile internet…

https://www.bytedance.com/en/news/60a526af053cc102d640c061 the letter itself

I think we should not follow the mindset of doing X things to get promotion. The most important thing is to know the whys behind promotion, and combine that thinking with what you …

I don’t want to dismiss the author’s point. But here is a related point: Choosing what tool to communicate is a social decision, not a personal one. You can’t prove the tool X is m…

Despite all the funny ideas, I am happy to see that people are actively thinking about some radical changes in how a tech company office should look like in future. Some ideas won’…

One important thing about typical config language is that they are much simpler to do static analysis upon than full fledged PL. Static analysis, even just simple parsing, is a qui…